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I totally echo this. Reminders of the importance of compassion and kindness are needed, and these threads, even if sparked by just an isolated event, can offer insight and guidance especially for new or prospective members of our community.This forum has a great sense of kindness and...

I had exactly the same problem as Val and stumbled upon this forum whilst searching for advice. I am delighted to say that the suggestion of using a sticking plaster solved my plumbing dilemma and, as an amateur gardener, finding this website is an added bonus. Thank you twice over!

When our Grandmother was in her advanced 80s, we cleared out and emptied her top cupboards, reorganised everything and confiscated her stepladder.That somewhat backfired when she started to re-use the now empty top cupboards ("what a waste of very useful storage space to keep them empty!") by...

What a lovely idea for a thread. A dear friend has been posting a poem a day on our group forum, I'll see if I can come up with one or two for you.

No, I didn't know you could.

Sometimes here, it feels like they 'own you' but they actually prefer prevention over cure, which does result in extra tests and re-tests, so I was summoned to the blood clinic this morning before 8.00 am and need another before mid of March as I have a few appointments soon..as you do...One...

Pleased for you Pete ... especially since I recommended. Hope they serve you well.

Happy Birthday FC

to you @DianneW , just seen your post.

Thank you all for the best wishies, i'm now going to have a bonfire today happy as pig's in muck

We rarely buy from any of the seed companies as we have more than enough coping with our own cuttings and with what people give us but Mrs Shiney ordered some bulbs from Parkers the other week. They arrived promptly but in one of the bags the bulbs were covered in mould. She contacted them...

Very interesting @DianneW and @shiney As far as I know my dads side of the family always lived in Worcester. A few years ago I found out that my great grandmother changed her name from Jennings back to her maiden name Rouse. My mother's side she could have been Jewish related and a bit of Irish....

Well done to the two of you for getting it sorted. I'm pleased that I don't have any of these new-fangled things I've had my car for a couple of years but every time I get into it I'm being told I haven't connected my bluetooth devices to it. You'd have thought that if it was smart it...

Did not know about that Tonne at all so checking out what else is in the charts.... Unit Value Kilometer (km) 1,000 Meters Hectometer (hm) 100 Meters Dekameter (dam) 10 Meters Meter (m) 1 Meter Decimeter (dm) 0.1 Meter Centimeter (cm) 0.01 Meters Millimeter (mm) 0.001 Meters Capacity Unit...

This is a cultural thing. In Finland, all toilets have a small shower hose next to the bog seat for washing purposes. Since the shower head looks a bit like an old fashioned telephone receiver the apparatus is commonly, but a perhaps a tad indelicately, known as the "pussy phone". Sorry, no way...

What a lovely photo of you both

The bell looks rusty, so maybe let it be as a character bell.....so not brass then...nice goose though. Love your other photos....I was reading up about Past Croydon, where I was born and grew up ..... an hour later I was living so many old memories with still plenty more I wish to read...

No need to apologise. As said earlier, it's only official government type notices and advertisements that we moan about or make fun of.Here on the forum it's the content we want and not the grammar and spelling - unless both are so atrocious that that we can't understand what they're saying....

No matter how many times I watch it, it makes me cry with laughter even sitting on my own. Best moment??? The Chandelier falling down! Second best moment Del falling through the gap at the barThey simply do not make comedy the same these days.Blimey I sound like my mum! Modern...

Happy Birthday